In: Accounting
Brief Exercise 20-10 Error correction [LO20-6]
In 2018, internal auditors discovered that PKE Displays, Inc.,
had debited an expense account for the $366,000 cost of a machine
purchased on January 1, 2015. The machine’s useful life was
expected to be six years with no residual value. Straight-line
depreciation is used by PKE.
Ignoring income taxes, prepare the journal entry PKE will use to
correct the error. (If no entry is required for a
transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first
account field.)
Depreciation is accumulated through years and credited to balance sheet and debited to income statement to reduce the value of machinery.
Straight line depreciation = cost of machine- residual value / useful life of asset
=366000- 0 /6years
=$ 6100 per year
Machinery purchased is capital cost and should be capitalized as asset and not debited as an expense.
Three years of depreciation 2015 2016 and 2017 would be acummulated and debited to retained earnings as expense.
As the expenses has been recorded more by machinery value ,retained earnings would be increased by crediting.
So net effect would be
Account | Debit | Credit |
Machinery | 366000 | |
Accumulated depreciation | 18300 | |
retained earnings | 347700 |
6100*3years = 18300
Retained earnings =366000-18300